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Single Hits No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales Chart for the First Time in History
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lee Greenwood, Grammy award-winning American patriot, known for his world-famous anthem, “God Bless the U.S.A” has earned the No.1 position on Billboard Magazine’s Digital Song Sales Chart for the first time ever. The decorated single rose from No. 50 to No.1 on the July 18-dated ranking with a 366% surge to 15,000 units sold in the week ending on July 9.
Greenwood recently teamed up with award-winning music group, Home Free, and The United States Air Force Band on a new version of the acclaimed song which has garnered over 30 million views on Facebook and countless views and listens on YouTube and various streaming platforms. Check it out HERE.
“I’m always humbled to see how “God Bless The U.S.A.” resonates with the American spirit of pride and love of country,” said Greenwood. “Thank you Proud Americans for using “God Bless The U.S.A.” as you celebrated our wonderful country – it is still the best place on earth!”
“God Bless the U.S.A” frequents various Billboard charts and now stands tall at No.1, the American staple single which reached No. 7 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1984 upon being released, has jumped to 2.6 Million U.S streams in the tracking week.
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About Lee Greenwood: Throughout his expansive career, international country music icon Lee Greenwood has earned multiple CMA and ACM Awards, a Grammy Award for Top Male Vocal Performance on “I.O.U,” in 1985, and a multitude of other prestigious award nominations. His discography includes twenty-two studio albums, seven compilation albums, seven No. 1 hits and thirty-eight singles including songs like “It Turns Me Inside Out,” “Ring On Her Finger Time on Her Hands,” “She’s Lyin’,” “I Don’t Mind the Thorns if You’re the Rose,” “Dixie Road,” “Somebody’s Gonna Love You,” “Going Going Gone,” “You Got A Good Love Comin’,” among others.
His stand-out hit “God Bless the U.S.A.” has been in the top five on the country singles charts three times (1991, 2001 and 2003), giving it the distinction of being the only song in any genre of music to achieve that feat. It reached the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart shortly after 9/11. Known for his stand-out patriotism and support of the U.S. Military, Greenwood has been honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s National Patriot’s Award and entertained troops on more than 30 USO Tours.
Greenwood was appointed to the council of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008 by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate, and continues to serve on the NEA at the pleasure of the President. His latest book release is a children’s book called Proud To Be An American, which is currently available in stores, on Amazon and leegreenwood.com.
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You have read many politically correct publications on how to write an effective resume broken down by industry, level of experience, geographic culture, style, and presentation. They are all correct, but are they meeting your needs? We are going to take a slightly different approach to resume writing, identifying the pitfalls so you can avoid a recipe for disaster.
At the end of this piece, you will have to ask yourself this question: Is my resume a wimp? We will see.
1. Avoid the law of diminishing returns. The general tendency is to write what you know and for many that are your most recent professional experiences. Many people will put five-plus bullet points on their most recent role, but as they move down toward earlier jobs in their career there are fewer and fewer bullet points. Your resume needs to be consistent with three or four bullet points per job.
2. Avoid the theoretical bullet points. How many of you have assisted or led a project management initiative or helped develop a process? We want to see the results!!!!! How many people did you manage, what were your annual revenues, cost savings or profits? What was the timeline of your project completion? What tools did you utilize to successfully meet the requirements of the role? There need to be key result factors in your bullet points.
3. No “Objective” or “Summary” at the top unless you are going to tailor it to the specific company or role. You need to think of your resume as a Broadway audition. When you walk on stage, you have between 30 seconds and one minute to shine. If you don’t wow the producers, you are not getting a callback, even if you starred next to Pacino in his last film. A recruiter will not go further than the first half of your resume unless impressed immediately. Factoring in your contact information and objective, that is almost half of the first page. You need to make your resume like Fast and Furious and give them a reason to want to keep reading.
4. If you chose to have an interest section, look very closely at what you put in that section and how it can be interpreted. For example, if you mention your interests as “Xbox, Television, DVR, iPod Touch”, it may create the impression that you lack focus or will be more dedicated to games than your career. I recently reviewed a resume that indicated in the interest section “Biking, Running, CNBC, and Dexter” I can see that this candidate puts an interest in health and finance but was a little taken back by an interest in a show about a serial killer. Think carefully if you chose to put interests because many companies today, with limited opportunities are looking for strong cultural fits.
5. Avoid the cut and paste tactic. It never works! As you evolve in your career, your responsibilities become more focused and to some degree repetitive. Do not copy and paste bullet points from one job to another.
6. Presentation, presentation, presentation. A strong resume is consistent, focused, concise, and results-driven. Don’t overshadow the content. Many candidates will use multiple fonts, colors, boxes, and other tricks to make the resume look fantastic. Some recruiters will view that as a smokescreen to avoid the fact that the content is not strong. Many candidates use that approach for the same reason.
7. Avoid support words or at least minimize the use of them. Words like “helped”, “assisted”, “supported” indicate that you are a team player but also show a lack of initiative. There needs to be some level of leadership in your background whether that was in your professional, academic background, or volunteer efforts.
8. Eliminate dates of academic achievement after five years. The rule of thumb is that after five years, you do not need to put dates of graduation on academic studies. It can create an unconscious sense of age discrimination. Also, many take time off between degrees while others go straight through. Just showing the degree and evaluation score will meet the academic requirement.
9. If you have a skill/technology section be clear on software and versions. Today, technology is a part of our very framework. Saying you are proficient in Microsoft Office products is no longer going to get your foot in the door. Are you proficient in Access, Excel, Powerpoint, or Word? Do you use XP, Office Suite, or Professional? Can you develop macros, run queries, or embed data? These are the deeper skills that will set you apart.
10. If you are ready and feel you have the talent, create a URL resume as well as a LinkedIn profile. If you can demonstrate that you have combined the ability to network and branch that with a strong understanding of technology, you will be one step ahead of the game. Also include those links on your paper resume.
Use the mindset of a salesperson. You are ultimately selling a product: yourself. After you finish your first draft, send it to a few people as well as reading it yourself. Did you sell yourself well? Think also from the perspective of a recruiter. Are there a lot of questions they have as a result of reading your resume/CV? If so then you need to re-write it. A resume needs to be thorough and energized. A resume is a powerful piece of paper that will help shape your future. Don’t take it lightly.
North Charleston, S.C., July 10, 2020 – Ingevity (NYSE: NGVT) recently awarded $2,000 college scholarships to five high school seniors in North Charleston, South Carolina. Scholarships were awarded to students who demonstrated exceptional leadership abilities and a commitment to making a positive impact in their school and community.
“Education is a key focus for Ingevity’s philanthropy program,” said
Jack Maurer, vice president, public affairs and investor relations.
“Charitable donations and philanthropic volunteerism support the
company’s mission to purify, protect and enhance the world around us and
shapes a stronger future for the communities where we operate.”
Of the scholarships awarded, four were awarded to students entering four-year colleges or universities with a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) related field of study. One scholarship was awarded to a student entering a four-year college or university for a non-STEM related field of study.
The scholarship recipients were Margaret Sears, Lowcountry Leadership Charter School; and Jolie Crunelle, Tristan Jansen, Peyton Smith, and Brady Zingerella, Wando High School.
Ingevity: Purify, Protect and Enhance
Ingevity provides specialty chemicals, high-performance carbon materials, and engineered polymers that purify, protect, and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, Ingevity develops, manufactures, and brings to market products and processes that help customers solve complex problems. These products are used in a variety of demanding applications, including asphalt paving, oil exploration and production, agrochemicals, adhesives, lubricants, publication inks, coatings, elastomers, bioplastics and automotive components that reduce gasoline vapor emissions.
Headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, Ingevity operates from 25 locations around the world and employs approximately 1,750 people. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NGVT). For more information visit www.ingevity.com.
• Top 1% earn at least: $415,810 (14th lowest) – Highest – Connecticut
• Avg. income of the top 1%: $1,034,585 (12th lowest) – Highest – Connecticut
• Share of all income earned by the 1%: 15.4% (18th lowest) – Highest – New York State
• Avg. income among all tax filers: $67,102 (8th lowest) – Highest – Connecticut
To be one of the top 1% earners, a South Carolina resident would need to have an annual income of $415,810, the 14th lowest threshold among states. There is a steep dropoff in income between the state’s hyper-wealthy and those who are “just” very wealthy. To be in the top 5% of earners, one needs to have an income of at least $183,102.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tallo, a digital platform, and app that connects talent with opportunities, has reached a new milestone, now providing one million users with a place to start learning about and preparing for their future career.
“We are ecstatic knowing that our platform now stands to help more than one million talented individuals earn scholarships, find the right post-secondary program, and launch successful careers,” said Casey Welch, Tallo CEO, and Co-founder. “We created Tallo as a small startup in South Carolina eight years ago, and we’re just as determined now as we were then to ensure that our community of future leaders finds success.”
Tallo helps foster meaningful dialogue between high school students, college students, jobseekers, corporate partners, post-secondary institutions, and organizations by serving as a networking platform that uniquely caters to the skills and expertise that talent (age 13+) have to showcase. Users build online portfolios and profiles to showcase their test scores, classes, certificates, experience and extracurriculars, and their future career and education interests.
Tallo users can communicate with recruiters at companies and colleges to learn more about their programs, mission, available positions, and the kind of training they require. Similarly, companies and colleges can reach out to talent users who look like a good fit for their organization, offering relevant advice in the hopes of building a future talent pipeline.
“Part of the reason why we created Tallo was because before it, student-athletes were the only high school students who had highlight reels,” explained Welch. “Everyone deserves to have a place to display and leverage their strengths to pursue their dreams.”
In 2012, the Tallo platform was introduced to two South Carolina high schools, Goose Creek High School and Summerville High School. Since then, Tallo has gained users in all 50 states, representing over 27,000 high schools and 4,000 colleges, and has made over 180,000 connections for their talent users. Tallo partners with colleges, companies, and organizations with a strong presence throughout the state of South Carolina and across the country, like Boeing, Walmart, Spinx, Clemson University, The Citadel, and Charleston Southern University.
“We’re looking for the next generation of leaders to propel Boeing into the future,” said Lindsay Leonard, Senior Director of Government Operations at Boeing. “South Carolina is full of bright students from every county and the Tallo platform helps us discover them.”
Thanks in large part to South Carolina Future Makers, an initiative between Tallo, the South Carolina Department of Commerce, the South Carolina Department of Education, the South Carolina Technical College System, and several other key players in workforce development, there are more than 100,000 Tallo users in South Carolina.
“In order to continue the growth and progress of education and career preparation throughout South Carolina, resources like Tallo are critical,” said Molly Spearman, South Carolina Superintendent of Education. “Our state has no shortage of wonderful talent in our K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, and industries, and the Tallo platform is the online ecosystem that brings it all together.”
“In South Carolina, we recognize our people are the Palmetto State’s greatest asset,” said South Carolina Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt. “Tallo’s ability to connect our workforce and students with educational institutions and companies will further advance SC’s talent pool and set the table for future economic growth and prosperity. Congratulations to Tallo for reaching this exciting milestone!”
“When the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance chose to partner with Tallo in 2016 through the SC Future Makers initiative, we recognized that reaching the next generation of talent required an innovative and creative approach. The platform has allowed thousands of South Carolinians to connect to meaningful opportunities in a way that’s never been done before in workforce development. This milestone is a testament for how technology can empower individuals to realize their dreams and position themselves for future careers,” said Sara Hazzard, President, and CEO of the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance.
“Tallo has made a huge difference in my life,” said Irvin Espinosa, a rising sophomore at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
“Through it, I participated in South Carolina’s 2019 STEM Signing Day,
received a scholarship from Boeing to attend Embry-Riddle, and am now so
proud to say I’m a first-generation college student.”
About Tallo
Tallo is the first online app that assists students in designing a career pathway, educators in recruiting top talent to their schools, and employers in developing a stable, continuous talent pipeline. Through a mobile digital portfolio, students (age 13+) and professionals showcase their skills and abilities, receive personalized career guidance, match with over $20 billion in scholarships, and get directly connected with post-secondary institutions and companies looking for the next generation of talent. For more information, visit www.tallo.com
Much has been said about the muppet ecosystem. From strong family values to drug-induced silliness wrapped up in song and dance. No matter how we view and interpret this sub-culture, it has remained a part of our lives for over 50 years. From 1983 to 1987, Jim Henson Productions in conjunction with HBO gave children and adults 30 minutes of colorful entertainment every Monday with strong socio-economic undertones that we didn’t even see hit us.
Over the years, this show has spun a frenzy of extended narrative and merchandising including an animated version, dolls, books, games, and now a new reboot on Apple. Did Jim Henson and his team see something almost 40 years ago that may have summed up the perfect world and lessons we can relate to today?
Looking at certain components of the story, characters and home of this subterranean civilization may open our eyes to what we have been blinded to for so long.
7 Reasons Fraggle Rock is the Perfect World
Fraggle Rock did not have or need law enforcement. They were a self-governing society that chose song and dance numbers over crime and violence. As we look at the value of law enforcement today and their abusive liberties, is there a lesson we can learn about harmonious living from the Fraggles and the other dwellers of Fraggle Rock?
Fraggle Rock was a community that lived in complete isolation. They were their own underground island self contained with all the natural resources needed to survive. Not a bad layout in the event of a global pandemic.
All Lives Matter – Fraggles and Doozers never judged one another based on their color, creed, believes, or sexual preferences. They were yellow, red, blue, and green. All the colors of the rainbow and all equally important to the safe haven of existence.
Healthy Living – The most important and valued food item was the radish. They loved eating food raised in the ground. Also, healthy soups were a part of their diet and were featured in all their celebrations.
Economic Growth and Job Security – Doozers loved to build. All-day, every day their built bridges and roads and the Fraggles would eat them as snacks. There was no animosity or anger. It was a reason for living focused on the co-existence of hard-working doozers and an edible infrastructure so loved by the Fraggles.
Always singing and dancing – Fraggle Rock was not known for depression (Maybe Goober), hate, criminal behavior, bullying, or wrongdoing. They just sang and danced. Every episode, including the iconic opening theme, was filled with music, laughter, and dancing. Now that is a society I can get on board with.
Tradition and Celebration – Fraggles never lost sight of their roots and heritage. They are a proud group that flourished in celebrations and festivals. Celebrations and remembrance of their past are such a critical part of their lives. Remembering their past to ensure a bright future is a creed in Fraggle Rock.
There are seven reasons, Fraggle Rock was trying to teach us that a good idealistic world filled with love, laughter, dance, and harmony can exist.
Congratulations to Charleston Women In Tech on launching its new website! Are you a woman working in the tech sector? Check out this great new resource for connecting with other women in tech.
Founded in September 2014 as a small Meetup group of Charleston women working in technology, our membership has grown to over 2,800 leaders, educators, students and tech professionals who seek to achieve greater diversity across all STEM fields in our region by increasing opportunity, participation, and achievement by women and minorities in the tech community. Our mission is to Connect, Support & Prepare Women of all ages for Careers in Technology.
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